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Minutes of a Public Hearing <br />October 6, 2010 ? <br />Page 29 ; <br />Mr. Diemert: It protects your rights lin a sense that the elected Council members, the Planning <br />Commission members who dledicated their time at no pay on your behalf to analyze, <br />investigate and study are going to come up with a very deliberative decision that will best <br />protect the residents of this community. Planning Commission members don't benefit by <br />something being rezoned from industrial to residential or residential to industrial or <br />commercial to public building. They don't benefit from that. They're here for a sworn <br />purpose that they took an oath of office to do. And that's the same with your <br />Councilmembers. They don't ? individually benefit from anything of that. And then the <br />voters again have the right to referendum or to initiative or other checks and balances in <br />order to make sure that the system is working correctly. Those are the rights that are <br />being protected by the adoption of this amendment. If you don't adopt it, those rights are <br />still there, only there's another layer and that requires the referendum of all of the voters <br />and hopefully they'll be deliberative and they'll discuss and they will exalnine and make <br />a decision like Planning Commission does. But as indicated, citizens don't show up to <br />Planning Commission. They don't listen to. both sides. They don't listen to everything. <br />They don't go to the meetings because they have their own lives to live and that's why <br />they've elected officials who appoint Commissioners who make these decisions for us <br />and if weren't not happy with it, we always have the right to remove them. And that's the <br />way it works. <br />Q: After the decision is made. <br />Mr. Diemert: No, you have a way to stop the decision. <br />Q: They can make a wrong decision. <br />Mr. Diemert: And you can reverse it. <br />Q: People can remove them, but the decision, once it's made, it's complete. <br />Mr. Diemert: No, you can still reverse it. <br />Q: 30 days is not sufficient. <br />Mayor Rinker: Well, that's one mechanism. You still have an initiative petition. Certain <br />legislation, sometimes because of timing, you can't undo something that's been done. I <br />mean, I'm not going to blow smoke. But the fact of the matter is, you always hold that